“There have been 2,548 goals scored at men’s World Cups since the first tournament in 1930. Trying to select five as the greatest in the history of the competition is perhaps a foolish task. But the nice thing about great goals in football is that there are so many different types. Some are individual dribbles, some are one-off strikes out of nowhere, some are flowing team moves, some are about outrageous close control, and some are largely about emotion. Here, then, is an attempt at working out the World Cup’s greatest goal in each of those categories. …”
NY Times/The Athletic (Video) – Michael Cox
Dennis Bergkamp v Argentina, 1998: skill
Greatest Of All Time: World Cup Goals – Carlos Alberto, Diego Maradona, Dennis Bergkamp and more
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“FC Thun are not used to making headlines, but the newly crowned champions of Switzerland are arguably this season’s greatest European football story. Home to fewer than 45,000 people and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-east of Bern, Thun is not among the 10 biggest Swiss cities by population. Its football club, which marked its 128th anniversary on Friday, had never previously won a major trophy, were outside the top division for the previous five years, and had come close to bankruptcy. Yet Thun, operating with one of the Swiss Super League’s lower budgets, sealed a historic title on Sunday. They lost 3-1 to Basel on Saturday night, but second-placed St Gallen lost 3-0 at home to Sion today — putting Thun an unassailable 10 points clear at the top of the table with three matches to go. …”
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